back pay
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.
- (countable, uncountable) Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.
Synonyms
back salary
back wages
Translations
Etymology
From back + pay.
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